Some service secretaries are also peace negotiators and directors of federal law enforcement agencies, so confusion is understandable
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Some service secretaries are also peace negotiators and directors of federal law enforcement agencies, so confusion is understandable
The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff doesn't command anything. He is the principal military advisor to the President and directs the joint staff. Operational C2 goes from the President to the SecDef (aka SecWar) to Combatant Commanders
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This thinking continues in how we see MDO and LSCO. We don't plan to win by killing more soldiers, but by collapsing enemy C2 and systems through targeting. Its a high leverage bet on precision over mass. We can't fight attritionally as currently organized. Not enough stuff, soldiers or assumed will
I wouldn't call it attrition, bc generally we (especially SOF) weren't seeking a pitched battle like Ia Drang, but trying to win one HVT at a time. Bc we didn't really understand local culture/politics and underestimated the network's resilience, we found HVTs of less and less value.
I would say attrition has been a dirty word since Vietnam. GWOT, esp SOF raids, was an outgrowth of systems thinking/EBO. The theory was complex networks would collapse by decapitation. But bc we couldn't get the big fish, we went lower and lower down the chain. Obv, didn't work for many reasons.
I'm not sure on the breakdown between OSS and OIR, but DVIDS has IA NG out in the AOR recently. From what I've heard, the units usually get split across Iraq, Kuwait, and (until last month) Syria
www.dvidshub.net/image/949117...
A NG unit on Spartan Shield is not the ideal QRF to do Behind Enemy Lines: Iran on short notice
Worth noting all these replies are happening on Al Gore's internet
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If you mean the diff between 2LTs in rifle PLTs, probably not. If you mean at DIV, corps, army and theater level, there was a big difference between new and RA officers and the Army invested a lot of time and effort in crash courses for staffs, as well as massive exercises before deployment.
You see, we won every battle but lost the war. So we need senior leaders to focus more on winning battles....
(yes, I know there are tensions and disagreements between/within these. that is also part of the western tradition)
You say you're a "defender of Western Civilization" but *checks notes* you hate Athens, Christian ethics, the Scientific Revolution, germ theory, and liberal democracy. Are you sure you're in the right place?
That's exactly what the Illuminati want us to say so we don't take the Lizard People threat seriously
This sounds like a Stargate SG-1 episode
With all the recent talk of American "culture" and "heritage", Bill Murray really said it best:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXjq...
You kind of have to read "Once an Eagle" so you can complain about "Once an Eagle."
The most egregious thing to me was the RNC chair. He had absolutely no reason to be there, and even less to speak to a military audience. How does the command square being non-partisan professionals with mandatory attendance to a stump speech for a political party official running for Senate?
Robert Kagan's "Ghost at the Feast" is a good read on the period from ~1900-1941. His thesis is basically that America resisted being a global power diplomatically/militarily, but was forced to as the world order broke down (twice).
More "popular" history than academic, but worth a look.
It will be very funny if they force all of Blackhorse to go into the box and actually C2 and sustain out there for 10 days. They are good at many things, but not contested logistics or maintenance.
Adjacent to the adjacent point, the best, most comparable data points across brigades (which the CTCs already have) is the number of FMC platforms going into the box compared to the number of firing platforms on the first and last day of live fires.
Adjacent to this, part of the data problem is that there is not a single "normal" rotation. Units arrive with varying lvls of training, and different desired outcomes from senior trainers. If successful, the COG makes it harder. CTCs by design test units and find flaws, not simply give go/no-gos.
Constitution says no less than 30,000 per representative. As I understand it, Congress controls reapportionment, so they could change it back to the 30-35,000 just through legislative action (no amendment needed).
www.congress.gov/crs-product/...
Al Jazeera makes it sound ominous, but the shift of wartime OPCON is not some new issue. There are pluses and minuses to a change, but the real issues are at the political level, not within CFC/USFK/UNC. This CFR article is 6 years old, recapping an older debate:
www.cfr.org/articles/mil...
The Lithuanians did the same, and the buildings are almost identical, with very similar stories. Seeing them both really drove home for me how systematic the repression was.
Both were open in 2020, still looks open on the interwebs now
I would bet King saw it as a way to move MacArthur out of the Central Pacific, rather than try to make him a subordinate to Nimitz or someone else
an argument in my mentions between several accounts with alternating German and Italian names about whether the region of Italy on the German-Italian border should be referred to with German or Italian names
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